A Handbook of Poetics: For Students of English Verse

accent action allegory alliteration Anglo-Saxon ballad beautiful beginning Beowulf blank verse called cents Century character Chaucer classic combined comedy common couplet course death drama early Edited effect element English epic example expression fall famous feel figure Finally four French Further Germanic give Greek hand human iambic imitated important kind King language later Latin legend light light syllables lines literature Lost lyric marked means measure metaphor metre metrical Milton moral movement nature object origin pause period person play poem poet poetical poetry popular present Professor quantity regular rhetorical rhythm rime rule says scheme sense Shakspere short simile simply slurred song sonnet sort sounds stanza story stress style syllables thing thou thought tion tragedy trochaic trope unaccented University verse whole word-accent